In 2007 well-known digital artist and designer Jonathan Harris created a project which features a number of interactive interfaces to a large photo collection. These interfaces are excellent examples of what I call "media visualizations" (see my article What is Visualization? 2010).
Interactive interface:
http://thewhalehunt.org/whalehunt.html
Explanations of interface modalities:
http://thewhalehunt.org/interface.html